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RY COODER - My Name Is Buddy
| Los Angeles Times |
| On his musical trek, Cooder's playful pack of traveling buddies includes folk veteran Mike Seeger (Pete's half brother), bluegrass mandolin maverick Roland White, norteño accordion master Flaco Jimenez, percussionist son Joachim Cooder and the Chieftains' Irish piper, Paddy Moloney....full text |
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| The Independent |
| His follow-up to the magnificent Chavez Ravine finds Ry Cooder still out there battling for the common man - or in this case the common cat, the Buddy of the title being an old moggy, red of fur and politics alike, whose travels across the America of the Great Depression closely parallel those of Woody Guthrie. Accompanied by his chums Lefty (an activist mouse) and the Rev Tom Toad (a blind amphibian preacher), Buddy experiences all the tribulations visited upon that era's poor, from eviction and emigration to racial prejudice and electoral disenfranchisement - made bearable only by the inner glow of fellowship and community gained from union involvement. ...full text |
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| Uncut |
| After spending most of the past 30 years working with a global cast of musicians – Mexican accordionists, Malian griots, Cuban soneros, Hawaiian slack key guitarists, Indian veena players – Ry Cooder’s return to his native LA with 2005’s Chavez Ravine came as something as a surprise. But even this operatic journey through the city was a cunningly disguised ‘world music’ album – using various antique Latin genres to document the Mexican barrios of the 1940s....full text |
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